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Scrabble
  • That's my favorite challenge bait tactic. If you challenge an opponent's word and you're wrong, you lose your turn, so if you want to be an asshole, play a word that exists as an obscure but valid word, but is much more well known as a proper name. Mike (alternate spelling of mic), Jenny (female donkey), Japan (a type of varnish), etc. They challenge, it's in the dictionary, you get to give the opponent a smug grin, and they probably won't want to play Scrabble with you anymore but you just got a major advantage.

    If they get used to your tricks, just bullshit them with names that they "know better than to challenge now". It's entirely legal to intentionally play fake words, they're just vulnerable to being challenged.

    Of course if you're playing against someone who's actually competitive at Scrabble they've probably dedicated time to studying challenge bait and would see right through you, it's a legit part of the game at a high level so they'd be prepared.

  • Elden Ring balance update makes the first half of the DLC easier, so you don't have to be as good as games journalists
  • Someone who was a tech journalist rather than a games journalist, and posted the attempts as a bit of self-deprecating humor. Of course capital-G Gamers think being bad at a game is a Serious Crime and nothing to joke about, so they responded as you would expect.

  • Pride wins!
  • I assume it's projection. He loses his shit when he's reminded of the existence of gay people, so he assumes everyone else must be the same as him, just with the teams swapped.

  • Elden Ring Publisher Addresses Difficulty Criticism of Shadow of the Erdtree, Offers Tips for DLC
  • What definition of "actually difficult" are you using here? All difficulty in games boils down to learning things. If you exclude anything learnable, you reach absurd conclusions like the only true form of difficulty is colorblind inaccessibility.

  • Pope told by student to stop using anti-LGBTQ language
  • Apparently flashing the dictionary definition of the word on screen was a requirement from Fox to allow them to air the scene, in an extremely rare case of that kind of thing actually making it funnier.

  • And they say English is bad
  • Only partially, unfortunately. There aren't a lot of people who speak full on Scots, the majority of Scotland speaks a dialect of English with a handful of Scots vocabulary now. It's an endangered language.